SMER FIAT Cr 32 Freccia in 1/48 ( ish!)

[Neil Merryweather]

Ooh very impressed,sir! I do like the microporous tape idea.

[Geoffers]

Great stuff Tony, I’m enjoying watching you put this together :thumb2:

I must say that it seems better to have limited cockpit detail to hide once buttoned up rather than spend age’s creating lots of detail that no one will ever see :thinking:

Geoff

[yak face]

Progress has been a but slow lately , due to being busy at work and other things taking up spare time ( changing my car and laying some false grass !)
Ive been cleaning up the fuselage and lower wings and now its in primer , with a few raised rivets reinstated with tiny blobs of canopy glue . The holes on the wings for the interplane struts dont line up with the struts fitted to the top wing ( i remembered this from the last one i built) so these were filled and re drilled . I also filled the holes for the machine guns as the kit supplied items were pants , plus I read that the wing guns were often removed to save weight .
A lot of the kit parts either need replacing or extreme clean up like the square section , flash ridden cabane struts , these being sanded down to an aerofoil section . Other bits like the tailplane struts will simply be replaced with rod
Ive also assembled the wheel spats and cut out a section of the wheels so they can be fitted last off to save masking ( like The Smythe Meister , with his fascination for turrets , i’m very partial to a spatted wheel ! )

[Tim Marlow]

Very cool. Excellent work that’s bringing this up to standard very quickly.

[yak face]

Forgot to say , I replaced the dodgy kit gun tubes with styrene tube , cut at an angle and flattened into an oval shape .
Been looking at the pics on the walkaround and realised that the interplane struts have a collar type fixing at each end . Obviously the kit doesnt so I used curved strips of kabuki tape to wrap around the ends and secured them with a drop of superglue . I’m going to have to do something similar at the bottom ends and also on the N shaped cabane struts . Once this was done the underside of the top wing and the fuselage and lower wing got a coat of sky grey. That was yesterday so today the undersides got masked up and the top of the wing , fuselage and wheel spats got a coat of sand yellow . Next up is the green and brown mottles .

[Jim R]

You are really going to town with this Tony. Superb improvements.

[flyjoe180]

Looking good Tony, love the improvements

[papa 695]

Great improvements Tony coming along very nicely.

[yak face]

Got the colours on now , next is a sealing coat of Klear so it is protected while the build carries on . Ive got the rudder to mask and spray white and I might mask and spray the various white and black stripes and circles rather than using the decals . Obviously some decals like the numerals and the roundel with the arrows on it will still be used .

[Mickc1440]

You're making a great job of this Tony, definitely a great improvement

[Tim Marlow]

Looking good Tony. Camo has come out really well…..

[Neil Merryweather]

LOvely jubbly!

[The Smythe Meister]

:thumb2:Gorgeous

[stillp]

Looking good Tony.
Pete

[papa 695]

Great painting Tony, now go rest your eyes.